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From my understanding it can to an extent. The key is that raising the nutrients also encourages other microfauna to flourish which in turn will outcompete the dinos.To confirm... I should raise nutrients WHILE still having Dinos? Won’t this urge them to spread further?
My dinos took off after raising nutrients. But, just as fishbox said, other things will take off as well....including algae. My tank got much worse before it started getting better.To confirm... I should raise nutrients WHILE still having Dinos? Won’t this urge them to spread further?
I am going to post some before and after pics today. I was going thru some of my before and looking today and I just had to post what an awesome community this is. I was pointed in the right direction and this have sure changed. My lights are just coming and so I will post the after pics later but here is some before shots to show you guys how bad things had gotten. This is such and awesome community.
I will post the after pics when I get home. This just goes to show if you hang in there use the information provided by this great community you can get your tank the way you want it. Dinos can be defeated. Your tank can rebound. You don't have to do a reboot. I think my pics show just how bad off things were. I thank every poster here because if it were not for you guys I would not have been able to purchase new coral last week. More pics coming.
From my understanding it can to an extent. The key is that raising the nutrients also encourages other microfauna to flourish which in turn will outcompete the dinos.
Check first post of this thread. Address nutrients - elevate PO4 first, then NO3 by dosing, not overfeeding.So Ive had my Zeovit tank running for 1.5 year now, had a LOT of high end sps, they were really beginning to catch speed grwing. and then came the dino..... battling for past 2 months....tried some routine mthdo, peroxide, dino x, lights, temp, nothing helped. LOST 90% of my expensive sps
Is there any reference photos to look at? It's difficult to get a good photo but I'd be able to confirm if I saw the same oneslook a little sesame seed like but need to zoom in more.
Is there any reference photos to look at? It's difficult to get a good photo but I'd be able to confirm if I saw the same ones
Ok I look to be Dino free!
My nitrate is 50ppm. With 0.1ppm phosphate. ...
Hey if you want to keep dinos growing just add iron... they love it. My control tank is a Dino factory. I’m kind of done with dinos so I’m going to treat the control tank back to a holding tank.
Thank you for the reply.
Ok I look to be Dino free!
My nitrate is 50ppm. With 0.1ppm phosphate. Now that I have things under control should I add more phosphate to drop the nitrate back down to 5ppm or start carbon dosing again just to bring it down and then stop. Guess I could just do water changes. After all it’s been 8 months since I did one. E erything looks pretty happy so I’m in no hurry to do anything. Hey if you want to keep dinos growing just add iron... they love it. My control tank is a Dino factory. I’m kind of done with dinos so I’m going to treat the control tank back to a holding tank.
Last, I still have like zero algae growing even at those nutrient levels. I get a light dust of green algae on the glass but that’s it. Count me lucky or should I get some and add it back in?
Oh my filter sock doesn’t plug now after weeks of running.
The black dust from the uv unit plastic breaking down ended once I made sure that there was no air in the tube. It was heating the plastic. I removed the titanium sheet. Was not needed.